Death toll from corona virus rises to more than 660 victims

Quarantine measures and restrictions expanded in China and abroad, to eliminate the emerging epidemic of the Corona virus, while its death toll rose to about 560 victims of the virus, after the authorities in Hubei announced Thursday that more than 70 additional deaths had been recorded.

After Wuhan and Hubei province in central China were effectively quarantined, other cities in the country's east imposed restrictions on tens of millions more residents.